Sentence examples for cleaner fish from inspiring English sources

This subversion has occurred between cleaner fish and their hosts.

So-called cleaner fish are among the best-known examples of mutualism in nature.

One of the few cases of mimicry reported among vertebrates is that of a so-called cleaner fish.

Host fish arrive at specific sites where they present themselves to the cleaner fish that groom them.

Marine Harvest uses so-called cleaner fish that feed on sea lice to help combat the problem.

Here, we provide experimental evidence for both of the requirements in a cleaning mutualism involving the cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus.

The cooperation in this case is displayed by cleaner fish that remove ectoparasites from their partners in a mutual relationship, the 'client' fish.

The fish undergoing cleaning acts as though it were in a trance, while the cleaner fish cleans its body, including the inside of the mouth and gills.

At the cleaning stations of the cleaner fish, there is often found quite another fish, the sabre-toothed blenny (Aspidontus taeniatus).

It is similar to the cleaner fish in size, coloration, and swimming behaviour, and it even exhibits the same dance as the cleaner.

Other fish have evolved to resemble the cleaner fish, but, rather than search for parasites, these imposters take a bite out of the host fish.